Today, September 13, GCAP marks the start of its Month of Mobilization activities, under the umbrella slogan ‘Stand Up Against Poverty: We Must Have a Voice’. The events have been timed to coincide with the Annual Meetings of the IMF and World Bank that will take place in Singapore from September 16 to 17.
More than 40 campaigners from over 30 countries representing the Global Call to Action against Poverty boarded a specially chartered Virgin flight from London Heathrow to Edinburgh to add their voice to the billions of people across the world who are standing up to G8 leaders to call for immediate action against poverty. Read who they are here.
The 'Ondoa Umaskini Tanzania Campaign' which means 'The Poverty Eradication Campaign for Tanzania' is a coalition of 76 organizations, spearheading the fight against poverty and also organising the Stand Up event amongst faith-based and educational organisations.
SINGAPORE – ONE (SINGAPORE) – a society
dedicated to raising public awareness and taking concrete actions to Make Poverty History –
is holding a Hunger “Banquet” on Wednesday 20 September to drive home the nature and
randomness of poverty. This “Banquet” will be co-hosted by and held at MTV, which supports the call for action against poverty and has a long history of providing a platform in support of pro-social issues.
The objective of the march -which will be held on Monday 21 November- is to take into Brussels the voices of 15 million Europeans who have taken action this year as part of the Global Call to Action against Poverty, on the day that the EU Trade Ministers will give the EU Trade Commissioner the mandate for negotiations in Hong Kong.
Despite the banning, detention and deportation of delegates to the International People’s Forum versus the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, the policies and practices of the IMF-WB will be put on trial at the Poverty and Debt Tribunal that will take place on the 17th of September in Batam, Indonesia.
